[-] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Flipping is what I've been doing digitally. The mirror trick may solve my issues when I go to physical media! That's genius!

[-] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

🤣🤣🤣🧡

[-] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I bet it would feel great on your chitinous hooves! And I hate the feeling as well. The lotion was prescribed as part of my recovery from second degree burns. I found a way to tolerate it. Mostly including wiping my hands off between the fingers. So gross.

And how many of too many pancakes? And does the quality of pancake play a part in the equation?

[-] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Those sections totally killed my attempts at a second play though.

[-] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago

Regular lotion on feet, hands, elbows, knees, etc. is worth it.

[-] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

You're welcome! Be warned, it's humbling AF... I feel like I have no idea what in doing half the time.

[-] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

We used to do that too. Now I keep a list on Google sheets with just =rand() in a column. Mark watched as we go and at the end of the list sort by rand.

I've been doing this for a few years and it's great!

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My wife has proven to be really good at guessing movies by sound alone. I started tracking without her knowledge initially and we're half way through our movies and she's gotten 79.16% right within the first 10 seconds*.

To sleep we play a movie, audio only. If we wake up we'll restart the movie. It has to be a movie we like enough for it to be on but not so much we won't sleep. So it not every movie we own, just 106 movies on the list.

It takes is about 4 months to get through it and I decided this time I'd keep score without telling her as I'm always the one to put a movie on. A few weeks in she said I should start keeping score, I laughed and told her I already was.

I guess after 25+ years being either we know each other pretty well.

*The 10 seconds excludes intro sounds that aren't unique. Like the Disney sound.

[-] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

It's a good process, and when I'm taking 2+ hours on a piece I very much do it. I normally get a piece about half done and put it away until tomorrow. Then I see a bunch of stuff I didn't see before.

I just don't know how to do that when my time budget is ~10 minutes. I'm looking for the hack or whatever people have done to solve the problem in much less time.

My traditional workflow is measure measure measure draw. It gets super accurate results and takes hours to get done. Not going to work for this art goal of drawing people on a subway and giving it them for example.

[-] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

I know the saying but don't get the reference...!?

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Without measurement and without liquefy the subject is very misshapen (watch the timelapse for an example). I have this crooked bias I'm not sure how to solve for. If you solved this for yourself, how did you do it? I'm struggling. And it's really digging into my time budget for high quality renders in ~10 minutes.

Timelapse: https://bsky.app/profile/ballshapedman.bsky.social/post/3msxpsmomck2t

[-] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago

Flat Earther: Complicated explanation on why it's flat

Me: Your argument is flawed. Look the earth is flat but your argument is missing the important part.

Flat Earther: (leans in with excitement)

Me: The oceans, all of them, none of them are carbonated... all flat!

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Side profile is easier for sure, 18 minutes is too long. And doing this without taking measurements is more difficult than I imagined. People who can just draw in proportions right away amaze me.

Timelapse: https://bsky.app/profile/ballshapedman.bsky.social/post/3msvsptgjzs2j

[-] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

Before I was this picture my first thought was: this is why people search "why do my eyes hurt" after an eclipse.

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30 Minute Sketch (thelemmy.club)

I'd like to be able to get to this fidelity in 10 minutes or so. I have a lot of work to do to get there.

Timelapse: https://bsky.app/profile/ballshapedman.bsky.social/post/3mstunh3dis23

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Gestural Drawing (thelemmy.club)

One of my art goals is to draw a good likeness of someone live in ~10 minutes. My current workflow takes hours to get there with lots of measuring and re-measuring. This is me trying to draw on the fly with no measuring. ~15 minutes.

Feedback?

Timelapse: https://bsky.app/profile/ballshapedman.bsky.social/post/3msrf7bwwvk2u

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Mad Vampire (thelemmy.club)

Clearly a genre that needs more exploitation. Vampires Beyond the Thunder Dome! I love the movies and the one video game.

Wanted to end the series with a bang. What do you think?

Timelapse: https://bsky.app/profile/ballshapedman.bsky.social/post/3mshatsqxu22a

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Vampire Bite (thelemmy.club)

In this vampire series I need to do at least one painting that really showcases the teeth. This is my attempt. How did I do?

Timelapse: https://bsky.app/profile/ballshapedman.bsky.social/post/3msghw2bls22r

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Vampire XCX (thelemmy.club)

When I saw the reference photo of Charli XCX I thought to myself, now THAT'S a vampire! Plus I hadn't done one with teeth or blood yet. And now I have.

Timelapse: https://bsky.app/profile/ballshapedman.bsky.social/post/3msc5khola22j

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Vampire Queen (thelemmy.club)

It wasn't her wings or teeth that gave it away. But the reflection she did not have.

When I started this piece I was planning to paint a reflection. Silly me. Looks unsettling without it which I think fits the scene.

Timelapse: https://bsky.app/profile/ballshapedman.bsky.social/post/3mrvsdiaylk2w

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Vampire (thelemmy.club)

I'm trying for a modern Gothic look. When I look for vampire reference material the outfits are almost all from the Victorian era. This is my attempt to modernize the style a bit. What do you think? What would a modern vampire wear?

Timelapse: https://bsky.app/profile/ballshapedman.bsky.social/post/3mrvb5lxbe22e

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Spooktober (thelemmy.club)

If you're thinking it's only July you'd be wrong. How do I know? My wife at I went shopping this weekend and 3 of the 4 stores were Halloween decked out. Clearly that means it's October...

And I wanted you try to paint a vampire.

Timelapse: https://bsky.app/profile/ballshapedman.bsky.social/post/3mrnp2pavwc2w

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